I host a fair number of Uplanders every year. I have for most of a couple of decades. We mostly hunt private grounds and between grounds lightly hunted, their dogs and mine, they have opportunity on more roosters than most of them are accustomed to seeing in the few days they get to hunt each year.

My observations is that like their dogs, they have opportunity at too few birds to really achieve their natural potential. Casual hunters, dog or man, just do not hunt the way those who pound cover for months each year.

That so many do not game shoot as well as they would like isn't really surprising, or at least so I think.

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